Top 66 Human Spirit Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Human Spirit Quotes from famous people such as Stephen Hawking, Fela Kuti, Christina Tosi, Stefan Banach, Jude Law, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a stand

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.
Fela Kuti
It’s that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what’s deep down in you, that’s really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.
Christina Tosi
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Stefan Banach
I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I’ve regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.
Jude Law
I believe in the power of the human spirit.
Bob Harper
I’ve had the opportunity to see both sides of the human spirit. I’ve seen those who will put you down, demean you, brand you, and have a one-track mind of destruction. But I’ve also seen people who uplift you. I’ve been on a journey unlike any others.
Brian Banks
You see, my movie isn’t about football, or about Notre Dame. It’s about hope, about the human spirit.
Rudy Ruettiger
Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.
Debbie Millman
The human spirit is the greatest thing on earth.
Ann Reinking
The human spirit and what it can go through… that’s pretty inspiring.
Dean Cain
My father talked about training as being more about the human spirit than just about your muscles.
Shannon Lee
Human spirit, things that aren’t tangible, fascinate me, so I’m always researching mind, spirit, soul.
Jada Pinkett Smith
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn’t reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
Barry McGuire
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
Herbert Hoover
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
Bernard Beckett
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
Corin Nemec
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
John Grierson
We retell our favorite stories. That’s what we’ve done since we were sitting around campfires. It’s a part of the human spirit. It doesn’t have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That’s how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that’s already been done.
Joel Kinnaman
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.
Dean Karnazes
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben Stein
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person.
Erwin McManus
I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit.
Thomas McGuane
I belonged to the ‘Point Break’ generation – I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It’s basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression.
Edgar Ramirez
My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit – not the superhero, but the common man.
Bill Duke
I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition… let’s talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.
Garry Marshall
My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It’s to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
Oprah Winfrey
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Helen Keller
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman
Being true to yourself really means being true to all t

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
Rita Dove
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one’s opportunities and make the most of one’s resources.
Luc de Clapiers
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
Hans Hofmann
The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.
Constantin Stanislavski
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings
The ability to overcome pain can be a testament to the human spirit, and it’s oftentimes what sets NFL players apart from armchair quarterbacks.
Mark Schlereth
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
John Guare
I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit.
Norman Davies
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Ben Stein
I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.
Erwin McManus
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
David Mamet
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.
Peter Ackroyd
I don’t want people to feel sorry for me or pity me – I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.
Katie Piper
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
Nikki Giovanni
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
Marina Abramovic
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
Wilhelm Dilthey
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
John C. Maxwell
I’ve had some ‘riotous excursions of the human spirit’ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.
Jim Mattis
I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that ‘Neapolitanism’ and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
Luciano De Crescenzo
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
Haniel Long
‘Striker’ is a story of the human spirit triumphing over all odds.
Padmapriya Janakiraman
The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.
Molly Bloom
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn’t about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
Anita Roddick
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don’t like to use the word efficiency. It’s creativity. It’s a belief that every person counts.
Jack Welch
The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that. I believe in the human spirit, in the kindness in all of us, and I am hopeful for this world.
Clemantine Wamariya
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan